Article: “Nashville is looking forward to twinning with Arbel next month” Quote: “The American mayor of Nashville, John Cooper announced, on Thursday, that the city is looking forward to officially twinning with the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, next month…On behalf of all the people of Nashville, I say how lucky we are to be known as ‘Little Kurdistan’…We will return to establishing close relations with Kurdistan at the individual level in many different fields such as education, culture, business and tourism.”